10/12/2023 0 Comments Blue in filmUltimately this is, of course, only a theory. Everybody likes teal and orange!'”īlade Runner : Orange and blue before it got so cool it wasn’t cool anymore It doesn’t take that many glances at the deadline bearing down on the calendar before you throw up your hands and say, ‘Fuck it. Your average colorist has to grade about two hours of movie, frame by frame sometimes, in the space of a couple of weeks. As Cracked’s Dan Seitz wrote, in an analysis of generic color grading: If you make your actors as warm and orange as plausible while making them still look human, and make the shadows and the background as blue as possible, you’ll have a vibrant screen, and a pretty darn complementary palette. One theory - which originates with blogger Todd Miro - is that the orange-and-blue trend is driven by this affinity for contrast. And when we’re talking about color, contrast is generally a desirable thing. That means that, side-by-side, they produce greater contrast than either would with any other color. You may remember from preschool that “opposite” color pairs like this are also known as “complementary” colors. Blue and cyan are squarely on the opposite side of the wheel. Most skin tones fall somewhere between pale peach and dark, dark brown, leaving them squarely in the orange segment of any color wheel. And it turns out that actors are in most scenes. One way to figure out what will look good is to figure out what the common denominator is in the majority of your scenes. Also, as filmmakers are bringing many different film formats together in a single movie, applying a uniform color scheme helps tie them together. ![]() The more of a movie you can make look good with a single scheme, the less work you have to do. The big change that digitization made was it made it much easier to apply a single color scheme to a bunch of different scenes at once. The cinematographer on the film has said, “They wanted it to look like an old hand-tinted picture, with the intensity of colors dictated by the scene and natural skin tones that were all shades of the rainbow.”īut how did we get from “all the shades of the rainbow” to “orange”? The Coens reportedly wanted it to look retrograde at the expense of realism, which is why it was graded so heavily: the entire movie is a nice warm sepia. O’ Brother Where Art Thou (2000) gets referenced a lot as an early movie to heavily digitally color grade. And if it doesn’t look good, that person gets in trouble. But someone still needs to actually do it. Now, most movies are shot digitally and it’s a lot easier to go back and rebalance things to achieve whatever affect you want. What the hell is going on? Well, back in the day, the colors projected on the silver screen depended first on how you shot and developed the actual, physical film, and then whether or not you had somebody go through and painstakingly, expensively apply more colors to every frame. ![]() The Wizard of Oz seems to predate this trend. It’s like the Emerald City, except instead of making us wear green-tinted glasses, the current Hollywood wizard mutes green…along with every other color on the spectrum that isn’t orange or blue. This is what he came up with:Įdmund Helmer’s 2013 analysis of film trailers The trend was already in full force a few years ago, when a blogger sampled the colors in a bunch of film trailers. But the rest tend towards orange and blue. Some films, and some filmmakers, tend towards novel color schemes. Orange and blue contrast movie posters from TV Tropes But they’re still on the whole very orange and blue: ![]() Because they need to be flashy, they’re a lot brighter and more saturated. And still undeniably orange and blue.Īnd then, of course, there’s every movie poster ever. This still from the Mad Max (2015) trailer looks a little yellower than the preceding three. Still from The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Still from Into the Woods (2014) a fantasy musical Still from The Imitation Game (2014) a historical biopic about Alan Turing Warning that once you know what to look for, it will be very difficult for you not to notice see this color scheme every time you look at a screen, at least for a little while: You’re probably skeptical, so check out the following. The color scheme, also known as “orange and teal” or “amber and teal” is the scourge of film critics – one of whom calls this era of cinema a “dark age.” Maybe you haven’t noticed, but in the past 20-or-so years there’s been a real catchy trend in major Hollywood movies to constrain the palette to orange and blue. Still from Jupiter Rising an upcoming scifi thriller
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